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echo: aust_modem
to: Bill Grimsley
from: Meng-Shi Lim
date: 1996-07-21 00:57:46
subject: New Modem...

-=> Quoting Bill Grimsley to John Piper <=-

 BG> John, at 10:18 on Jul 14 1996, you wrote to Steven Anderson...
 
 SA> I have had no trouble with a USR COURIER.
 
 JP> Can you name a person who has?

 BG> Yep, everybody who cooked their AMD flash-ROM chips when attempting to
 BG> apply the 04/29 US/Canada SDL, that's who.  Mine survived unscathed,
 BG> but poor old Russell Brooks lost three of his five Couriers in one
 BG> fell swoop. 

Sh*t! I didn't know FlashROM can be that dangerous. I guess it is one of
the very few cases where software can fry the hardware. I'd better be
careful with my PC Card modem upgrades.

BTW, can adjusting an S register permanently stuff up a modem?

mslim{at}ne.com.au

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